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This book tells the incredible story of the prince as pauper, of pauper as resurrected prince. Partha Chatterjee’s retelling of the notoriously famous ‘Bhawal Sannyasi Case’—one of India’s best-known and most historic legal battles—is narrative history of the finest kind. It is replete with dramatic incident, sexual debauchery, family violence, and political intrigue. It is an epic story of war within a household which spills out into the social life of colonial Bengal; and beyond, into the administrative and legal fabric of India during the heyday of nationalism; and then beyond that again, into spirituality and philosophy, legend and folklore, theatre and the cinema.
ISBN-9788178240411
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Pages : 452
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